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My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I’d rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
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Creating Jobs Labors Ordinary
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
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Levels Wages Workplace
The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers’ conditions.
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Jobs Safety Winning
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
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Cost Outcomes People
Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn’t rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they’re irreconcilable.
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Believe Employees Views War
Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.
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Better Complain Dispute Good Money Union
Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face.
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Country Death Life Real
I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces.
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Country Employee Employer Future Get People
I’ve spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn’t matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.
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Construction Matter Two Workers
There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.
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Before Challenge Death Grapple Ignorance Life
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the – my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren’t in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
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Trade Tradition Unions
What I believe to be every Australian’s right – a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.
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Believe Jobs Safe
I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.
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Community Ideas Party
I’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
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Christian Equality Law Marriage
I’m proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers.
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Cooperatively Employees Moderate Official Union
I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn’t mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.
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